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Pulling out of part of the largest market in the USA for one.
Capitulating a chunk of business because of the Max disaster two (as the article states). It’s a shame SW has to do something akin to shrinking to profitability over this.
It will add to the public’s negative perception of the Max if the country’s largest operator of it states they are pulling out of markets because of it.
And (I’ll admit this is selfish) SW is on my radar and EWR is my home airport, so commuting would see limits.
I have to hope the situation will all reverse itself sooner than later. Who knows
In general management will use any excuse necessary to tuck and run other than they can't make it work business wise. So the max is the fall guy on this but most likely UAL was just super competitive on those routes for too long and SWA blinked first being it was a United hub.